Chapter Summaries

Xu Tianyao arranged for Shangguan Weier to bring Ye Guyi to Prince Ming, then asked Snow Maiden about the Ice Empress and revealed his plan to recruit her with a new soul beast contract technology. He hoped to secure the Ice Empress before Huo Yuhao entered the Far North.

• Shangguan Weier pledged to complete her mission and bring Ye Guyi safely before Prince Ming.
• Xu Tianyao and Shangguan Weier finalized plans for keeping in contact, concealing their identities, and handling unexpected events.
• Xu Tianyao returned to the viewing room and asked Snow Maiden whether she had visited the Far North during the past year.
• Xu Tianyao asked whether the Ice Empress was close to Snow Maiden and whether she could survive her approaching heavenly tribulation.
• Xu Tianyao told Snow Maiden he wanted to recruit the Ice Empress and explained that his new soul beast contract technology could change relations between Soul Masters and soul beasts.
• Xu Tianyao resolved to claim the Ice Empress before Huo Yuhao could reach the Far North.

Xu Tianyao explained to Snow Maiden that he wanted Ice Empress to become his soul spirit through a contract that would preserve her soul and let her grow alongside him. Snow Maiden doubted the method and challenged him to explain how he could prevent Ice Empress’s soul from dissipating.

• Snow Maiden asked whether Xu Tianyao wanted Ice Empress to take human form and leave the Far North with him.
• Xu Tianyao said he wanted Ice Empress to form a contract with him, not to become human.
• Xu Tianyao explained Electrolux’s soul spirit contract, which would preserve a consenting soul beast’s consciousness within a soul master’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Xu Tianyao told Snow Maiden that Ice Empress would give up her physical body and become his companion, and that he hoped to help her regain a body in the future.
• Snow Maiden questioned whether the contract could work, since a soul beast’s soul normally dissipated after sacrifice.

Xu Tianyao explained his soul spirit contract to Snow Maiden by showing her that the Cold Moon Snow Falcon, Xiaoyue, had survived her sacrifice and could be restored. Snow Maiden began to consider whether Xu Tianyao might be a trustworthy choice for Ice Empress, though his promise of eventual rebirth remained a gamble.

• Snow Maiden warned Xu Tianyao that Ice Empress would react violently if he asked her to abandon her body and become his soul spirit.
• Xu Tianyao summoned the Cold Moon Snow Falcon, and Snow Maiden recognized Xiaoyue as the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that had sacrificed herself to him.
• Snow Maiden examined Xiaoyue's aura, and Xiaoyue flew to her hand and greeted her affectionately.
• Xu Tianyao explained that his senior had separated Xiaoyue's remaining soul from his soul ring and restored her as a soul spirit, though she had lost some memories and could not speak.
• Xu Tianyao said willing soul beasts could preserve their souls through the contract and promised to help them gain new bodies if he reached godhood.
• Snow Maiden considered Xu Tianyao's abilities and the secrets she had learned from Father God, and began to think he might be a suitable choice for Bingbing.

Xu Tianyao gained Snow Empress's support for approaching Ice Empress and explained why his departure from Ming Capital would not disrupt the empire's plans. The next day, he arrived at a secret Plain Alliance castle outside the capital, escorted by powerful experts.

• Snow Empress agreed to help Xu Tianyao meet Ice Empress but warned that she could not guarantee Ice Empress would cooperate.
• Xu Tianyao told Snow Maiden that he would not force Ice Empress and explained that he believed he could persuade her.
• Snow Maiden raised concerns about Xu Tianyao leaving Ming Capital while his rivalry with Xu Tianran drew attention.
• Xu Tianyao explained that he and his advisers intended for Xu Tianran to keep ruling while he gained military and political experience, and said he would discuss the trip with Kong Deming.
• Meng Hongchen returned excited about the Gold Soul Coins she had won betting on Soul Fighting matches.
• The next day, Xu Tianyao arrived by carriage at a secret Plain Alliance castle outside Ming Capital, where concealed experts and an old guard awaited him.

Xu Tianyao met Ye Guyi, an Angel Martial Soul bearer, in the Plain Alliance’s bunker and questioned her about other Angel Martial Soul inheritors. Ye Guyi said she had never met another and could not find her family, leaving Xu Tianyao to conclude that the lineage had nearly vanished since the war ten thousand years earlier.

• Xu Tianyao arrived at the Plain Alliance’s hidden bunker, where Shangguan Weier introduced him to Ye Guyi.
• Xu Tianyao praised Ye Guyi’s Angel Martial Soul and asked Shangguan Weier to leave them alone together.
• Ye Guyi asked why Xu Tianyao had summoned her, explaining that she hunted Evil Soul Masters and had accepted the meeting because of his reputation for opposing them.
• Xu Tianyao asked whether Ye Guyi knew of any other Angel Martial Soul bearers or had surviving family members with the same Martial Soul.
• Ye Guyi said her parents had been killed, she had been unable to locate her family, and she had never encountered another Angel Martial Soul bearer.
• Xu Tianyao apologized for bringing up painful memories and concluded that Angel Martial Soul bearers had nearly disappeared since the war ten thousand years earlier.

Xu Tianyao proposed that Ye Guyi help establish an imperial Soul Engineer legion devoted to hunting Evil Soul Masters, with Prince Ming's Estate providing support. Ye Guyi accepted the alliance, seeing it as her chance to avenge her family, and Xu Tianyao planned to rely on the Plain Alliance to help her grow stronger.

• Xu Tianyao explained that he had noticed Ye Guyi because of her Angel Spirit and her pursuit of Evil Soul Masters.
• Xu Tianyao proposed forming a Soul Engineer legion dedicated to tracking and hunting Evil Soul Masters, backed by Prince Ming's Estate.
• Ye Guyi recognized the proposal as a chance to fight the Evil Soul Masters who had destroyed her family and vowed to follow Xu Tianyao.
• Xu Tianyao helped Ye Guyi rise and insisted they were partners, though she still regarded him with reverence as a prince.
• Ye Guyi reflected that her life had reached a turning point, while Xu Tianyao planned to use the Plain Alliance's resources and intelligence to support her training.

Xu Tianyao recruited Ye Guyi into the Plain Alliance and entrusted her with a token for support, urging her to grow strong for the coming struggle against the Holy Spirit Cult. After Ye Guyi went to lunch, Xu Tianyao toured the Alliance’s underground fortress and learned more about its wealth-gathering operations.

• Xu Tianyao gave Ye Guyi a Plain Alliance token and promised her resources and protection while she focused on becoming stronger.
• Ye Guyi accepted the responsibility and felt renewed hope for her future.
• Xu Tianyao invited Ye Guyi to a lavish medicinal meal made with high-age soul beast meat, a luxury most Soul Masters could not afford.
• After Ye Guyi went to eat, Shangguan Weier guided Xu Tianyao deeper into the underground fortress near Ming Capital.
• Xu Tianyao considered the fortress a key storehouse for the Plain Alliance’s wealth and concealed resources, and learned that its trained female teams built connections among nobles and wealthy merchants.

Xu Tianyao discovered that the Plain Alliance profited from trafficking children with beastlike traits and decided to protect them and investigate the trade. He planned to give them legal work in the Sun Moon Empire and crack down on the trafficking, despite the powerful interests involved.

• Xu Tianyao saw the Plain Alliance's hidden stockpiles of precious goods and military Soul Tools, which could arm a small Soul Engineer legion.
• Shangguan Weier showed Xu Tianyao cages filled with children whose Martial Soul mutations had given them beastlike traits and explained that powerful buyers prized them.
• Shangguan Weier described how the Plain Alliance, Aodu Chamber of Commerce, and Xishui Alliance profited from the trade, while other groups used forced breeding to produce more children.
• Xu Tianyao ordered Shangguan Weier to protect every child, provide food and humane treatment, and gather evidence against the other organizations involved.
• Xu Tianyao decided the children could work legally in the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Tool industry and declared that human trafficking must be punished severely.

After discovering children imprisoned and used in experiments, Xu Tianyao exposed the crimes and demanded an investigation, igniting public outrage across the Sun Moon Empire. Xu Tianran ordered a crackdown on Ming Capital’s underground forces, while Zhongli Wu accepted that some Holy Spirit Cult members would be sacrificed.

• Xu Tianyao returned to Prince Ming’s Estate after seeing the children imprisoned in the underground castle.
• Xu Tianyao and several officials submitted a joint memorial to Xu Tianran and leaked evidence to Ming Capital’s newspapers.
• Citizens across Ming Capital protested and demanded an investigation after learning that children had been used in experiments and trafficked.
• Xu Tianran confronted Zhongli Wu over the Xishui Alliance’s crimes and rejected the suggestion of silencing those who knew about them.
• Xu Tianran ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to halt the activities and announced that the Royal Soul Engineer Legion would purge Ming Capital’s underground forces.

Xu Tianyao’s crackdown on crime boosted the Sun Moon Empire’s public standing, while he advanced as a Soul Engineer in Mingde Hall. He arranged with Kong Deming to travel to the Far North and seek the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion’s cooperation.

• Xu Tianran ordered Xu Tianyao and the Royal Soul Engineer Legion to purge Ming Capital’s criminal organizations, rescuing civilians and drawing praise at home while putting pressure on the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
• Xu Tianyao studied at Mingde Hall under its Grandmasters and Kong Deming, earned his Level 4 Soul Engineer badge, and completed a shield for Mengmeng.
• Xu Tianyao told Kong Deming that he wanted to return to the Far North with the Heavenly Snow Woman and win the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion’s cooperation.
• Kong Deming agreed to support the trip, and Xu Tianyao planned to leave the next morning after contacting Snow Maiden.
• Xu Tianyao took Kong Deming’s research notes from the underground institute, intending to give them to Electrolux.

Xu Tianyao traveled with Kong Deming and Snow Maiden to the Far North, where he hoped to gain multiple Soul Rings from an Ice Jade Empress Scorpion. Snow Maiden summoned Ice Empress, who arrived and recognized that Snow Empress had transformed into a human; the two began speaking privately.

• Kong Deming told Xu Tianyao he would join the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Legion after reaching Rank 50 and fight on the front lines.
• Xu Tianyao recalled his childhood ambition to become a great general and planned to earn battlefield merit after returning from the Far North.
• Snow Maiden led Xu Tianyao and Kong Deming to an ice cave near the Ice Jade Scorpion clan.
• Snow Maiden summoned Ice Empress, who appeared in a jade-green flash of lightning.
• Ice Empress recognized Snow Empress's human transformation, and Snow Empress said she would explain it to her.

Xu Tianyao tried to persuade the Ice Empress to become a Soul Spirit, and she agreed to hear him out after the Snow Empress vouched for him. Alone in the ice cave, Xu Tianyao confronted her about the deadly tribulations ahead, leaving the Ice Empress angry but listening.

• The Ice Empress questioned Xu Tianyao about asking her to sacrifice herself, and he explained that a Soul Spirit would retain its consciousness and continue cultivating.
• The Ice Empress tested Xu Tianyao with her pressure, but withdrew it when the Snow Empress intervened and offered him a chance to explain.
• Xu Tianyao asked to speak with the Ice Empress alone, and Kong Deming agreed after the Snow Empress guaranteed his safety and gave him a metal shard for emergencies.
• Xu Tianyao followed the Ice Empress into the ice cave, where he asked how much longer she could live and described the increasingly deadly heavenly tribulations she faced.

Xu Tianyao proposed that Ice Empress become a Soul Spirit to escape her deadly heavenly tribulations, and Electrolux demonstrated that he could preserve and repair souls through a symbiotic contract. Ice Empress was impressed by Xu Tianyao’s honesty but had not yet agreed to the partnership.

• Xu Tianyao explained that Ice Empress could choose to become a Soul Spirit instead of facing ever-deadlier heavenly tribulations.
• Ice Empress questioned the risks of the contract, and Xu Tianyao admitted that their lives would be linked and her soul might still be in danger.
• Xu Tianyao summoned Electrolux, who revealed a contract formation and repaired a dead Soul Beast’s fragmented soul to demonstrate how it worked.
• Electrolux said he could modify the sacrifice contract and help Xu Tianyao pursue godhood, while Xu Tianyao described how Ice Empress’s power would be sealed and gradually unsealed.
• Ice Empress considered the possibility of helping Xu Tianyao become a god and told him she appreciated his honesty.

Xu Tianyao convinced Ice Empress to form a Soul Spirit Contract after she inspected his body and confirmed he could bear her power. The contract was about to begin under Kong Deming’s protection, leaving two of the Far North’s Three Great Heavenly Kings allied with Xu Tianyao.

• Ice Empress asked whether Xu Tianyao had originally intended to use Snow Empress, and he said Snow Empress had become his friend and companion.
• Ice Empress chose to gamble on Xu Tianyao and examined his Martial Souls, meridians, bones, and Sea of Consciousness.
• Ice Empress confirmed Xu Tianyao could withstand her power and agreed to form a Soul Spirit Contract with him.
• Xu Tianyao returned from the ice cavern with Ice Empress, and Snow Maiden learned that Ice Empress had agreed.
• Xu Tianyao demanded that the contract ritual be protected from interference, and Kong Deming deployed detection formations and Soul Tool cannons around the cavern.

Xu Tianyao, Ice Empress, and Electrolux began the dangerous Soul Spirit Contract in Kong Deming’s Far North base. As Ice Empress’s body disintegrated and her power was divided, heavenly lightning gathered in response, and the formation suddenly began to contract.

• Kong Deming secured the ice cave entrance while Snow Maiden concealed the area with her cold aura.
• Electrolux prepared three contract formations, and Xu Tianyao placed the Blade of Life at their center.
• Ice Empress agreed to proceed, and Xu Tianyao released his Moon Martial Soul as Electrolux activated the formations.
• Ice Empress’s body and power began separating, forcing Xu Tianyao to endure her agony through their linked contract.
• Ice Empress’s cultivation flowed toward Xu Tianyao’s Martial Soul and a soul bone as thunderclouds gathered above the Far North.
• Snow Maiden prepared to block the heavenly lightning, but the contract formation began contracting violently.

Electrolux completed Ice Empress's Soul Spirit Contract with Xu Tianyao and guided her immense power into his Martial Soul, Soul Rings, and Soul Bone. Xu Tianyao reached the Soul Ancestor limit, fused Ice Empress's torso bone, and watched Ice Empress emerge from his Sea of Consciousness.

• Electrolux separated Ice Empress's soul and guided it into Xu Tianyao's Sea of Consciousness, where they formed the Soul Spirit Contract and escaped the heavenly tribulation.
• Electrolux divided Ice Empress's power between Xu Tianyao's Bright Moon Martial Soul and three orange-gold Soul Rings, granting him Ice Empress's Pincers, Eternal Frozen Domain, and Ice Blast.
• Xu Tianyao's Soul Power rose to level fifty, while Electrolux sealed away the remaining power and formed Ice Empress's torso bone.
• Xu Tianyao endured the torso bone's fusion as Electrolux and Ice Empress protected his body, then gained Ice Empress's Fury and Ice Empress's Protection.
• The contract formation ended, and Xu Tianyao opened his eyes as Ice Empress emerged from his Sea of Consciousness.

Xu Tianyao completed the Soul Spirit Contract with Ice Empress and received a mysterious divine guidance pointing toward the Heaven Dou Empire. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao enjoyed a warm, ordinary evening selling grilled fish at Shrek Academy before returning to his dormitory to cultivate.

• Ice Empress became the first true soul spirit and discovered that an ice rune in Xu Tianyao's Sea of Consciousness was guiding him toward the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Ice Empress and Electrolux judged the rune's summons to be harmless, and Xu Tianyao left the ice cave with three orange-gold soul rings.
• Kong Deming saw Xu Tianyao's new soul rings and suspected that a god had left him the rune's guidance.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei helped Huo Yuhao finish his grilled fish sales, and Huo Yuhao reflected on the warmth of his new life at Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his dormitory after parting with Tang Ya and Bei Bei, then sat down to cultivate with the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

Huo Yuhao discussed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s plan to recruit the Ice Empress and resolved to grow stronger before their winter-break journey to the Far North. Meanwhile, Xu Tianyao, Kong Deming, and the Ice Empress reached Sunset Forest by following the Ice Talisman, where Xu Tianyao considered searching for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after completing their main objective.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao that his body and Soul Power were ready for a winter-break trip to the Far North to seek the Ice Empress.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm insisted that he could persuade the Ice Empress to join their god-creating plan, while Huo Yuhao doubted his confidence.
• Huo Yuhao recalled the mistreatment he had suffered at the White Tiger Duke Mansion and vowed to keep working hard to become stronger.
• Xu Tianyao, Kong Deming, and the Ice Empress traveled south in disguised carriages, following the Ice Talisman and avoiding major cities and military garrisons.
• The group reached Sunset Forest, and Xu Tianyao thought of searching for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after they had completed their immediate mission.

Xu Tianyao, Kong Deming, and Snow Maiden followed the Ice Talisman into Sunset Forest and searched a waterfall valley for its source. Beneath the lake, Electrolux sensed a faint fluctuation of law, and the three headed toward it.

• Xu Tianyao, Kong Deming, and Snow Maiden entered Sunset Forest and followed the Ice Talisman deeper into the woods.
• The group reached a valley with a waterfall and lake, where the Ice Talisman stopped vibrating.
• Kong Deming searched the cliff and the caves behind the waterfall, but found no sign of human activity.
• Xu Tianyao, Kong Deming, and Snow Maiden descended into the lake and searched its dark depths as their spiritual power came under increasing suppression.
• Electrolux sensed a faint fluctuation of law to the lakebed’s left, and Xu Tianyao called Kong Deming and Snow Maiden over to investigate.

Xu Tianyao, Snow Maiden, and Kong Deming uncovered an ancient palace beneath the lake, where the Ice Talisman awakened and enveloped Xu Tianyao and Snow Maiden in light. Xu Tianyao awoke in a chaotic plane, cut off from his powers and companions, and found Douluo Planet among countless spheres as a familiar presence beckoned him closer.

• Xu Tianyao and Snow Maiden cleared away the lakebed rubble and uncovered an ancient altar-like palace whose inscriptions Kong Deming judged to be tens of thousands of years old.
• Xu Tianyao touched the snowflake-shaped stone in the statue's hands, causing the Ice Talisman to emerge and the palace to fill with icy-blue light.
• The light lifted Xu Tianyao and Snow Maiden beside the statue, while Kong Deming's attacks failed to affect them and he concluded that the gods had appeared.
• Xu Tianyao regained consciousness in a chaotic space where he could not use his Soul Power or contact Snow Maiden, Ice Empress, Electrolux, or Elder Yi.
• Xu Tianyao followed a familiar life-like aura through the chaos and discovered countless spheres, including a tiny image of Douluo Planet.
• The planet's clouds dispersed as the aura urged Xu Tianyao to come closer.